Three Days in the Village

Notes by Leo Tolstoy about how the peasantry impoverished at the beginning of the 20th century, and how dozens of beggars daily gather at his home. Who went bankrupt from wages, who was unlucky in leaving the land, who were struck down by new laws, who became orphans… Notes about the unimaginable distance that exists in Russia between the people and the state—and about the ominous signs of an approaching social catastrophe.